eBike Shops in Massachusetts (2026): 50 Verified

A brick main street after rain, leaves down, one rack outside the storefront. Most of the Massachusetts counters on this page sit on a street about this size, in a town most state directories never reach.

Massachusetts hides its bike shops in plain sight. The state incorporates small and packs tight, so a counter serving a quarter of a million people can sit in a town of thirty thousand and never appear in a list of cities. Nine of the 25 cities above 50,000 residents carry a verified store; sixteen do not, and 33 more storefronts sit in towns too small for the table. The table below is the whole state, city by city.

Massachusetts's eBike Map, City by City

All 25 Massachusetts cities above 50,000 residents in the Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimates, the verified stores found inside each city line, and the mapped candidates that could not be cleared. A dash in the stores column means no verified store within the city limits, which in this state very rarely means no store within a short ride. The nearest verified store for the largest cities with none is listed further down.

Seventeen of the 50 storefronts sit inside those 25 city lines. The other 33 are in towns that fall below the Census threshold this table uses, which is the single most useful thing to know before searching by city name in Massachusetts. Watertown has fewer than 36,000 residents, borders Newton, Cambridge and Boston, and serves all four; Chelmsford does the same job for Lowell, West Springfield for Springfield, Braintree for Quincy.

Two regions break the pattern in opposite directions. Greater Boston holds 33 of the 50, two thirds of the state's e-bike retail inside Route 128 and its immediate ring. The south coast is genuinely thin: New Bedford and Fall River hold nearly 200,000 residents between them and neither has a verified floor, with the closest counters 14 and 21 miles out by the coordinates the map publishes.

Massachusetts eBike Law — 2026 Quick Reference

Massachusetts is one of the few states that never adopted the three-class model, and that single fact decides which bike is worth buying here. A machine that meets the statutory definition is a bicycle for these purposes; a machine that misses it falls into an older moped category with rules this page does not cover. Every rule below quotes the section it comes from, read on the General Court's own site on September 4, 2026.

• Two classes, and 750 watts is the ceiling. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 1 defines an electric bicycle as "a bicycle or tricycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of 750 watts or less that meets the requirements of a class 1 electric bicycle or a class 2 electric bicycle."
• Class 1 assists only while pedaling, to 20 mph. A class 1 electric bicycle is one "equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour" (ch. 90, § 1).
• Class 2 may run on the throttle alone, to the same 20 mph. A class 2 electric bicycle carries a motor "that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour" (ch. 90, § 1).
• There is no class 3 in the definitions section. The string "class 3" does not appear anywhere in ch. 90, § 1 as published on September 4, 2026. A 28 mph pedal-assist bike is therefore not an electric bicycle in Massachusetts, and what it is instead is a question the section does not answer.
• A compliant e-bike is carved out of the moped category by name. A "motorized bicycle" is a pedal bicycle with a helper motor "with a cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission, and which is capable of a maximum speed of no more than thirty miles per hour," and the same sentence adds "provided, that the definition of 'motorized bicycle' shall not include an electric bicycle" (ch. 90, § 1). That proviso is what keeps registration and plates off a class 1 or class 2 bike.
• A standing scooter is a separate vehicle and borrows none of it. The definition of "motorized scooter" covers a handlebar device "designed to be stood or sat upon by the operator" and expressly "shall not include a motorcycle, electric bicycle or motorized bicycle or a 3 wheeled motorized wheelchair" (ch. 90, § 1).
• Riders 16 and younger wear a helmet, and it must be CPSC rated. "Any person 16 years of age or younger operating a bicycle or being carried as a passenger on a bicycle on a public way, bicycle path or on any other public right-of-way shall wear a helmet," which "shall meet the standards for helmets established by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission" (ch. 85, § 11B, cl. (2)(iii)). Adults are not covered by that clause.
• Public ways are open; posted expressways are not. Every person operating a bicycle on a way "shall have the right to use all public ways in the commonwealth except limited access or express state highways where signs specifically prohibiting bicycles have been posted" (ch. 85, § 11B).
• Sidewalks are legal outside business districts, unless the town says otherwise. The statute permits that "bicycles may be ridden on sidewalks outside business districts when necessary in the interest of safety, unless otherwise directed by local ordinance," and a rider on the sidewalk "shall yield the right of way to pedestrians and give an audible signal before overtaking and passing any pedestrian" (ch. 85, § 11B).
• The brake test is written as a distance, and a heavy e-bike has to meet it. Every bicycle on a way must carry "a braking system to enable the operator to bring the bicycle traveling at a speed of fifteen miles per hour to a smooth, safe stop within thirty feet on a dry, clean, hard, level surface" (ch. 85, § 11B, cl. (7)). Ask the shop what the bike stops in, loaded.
• Lights after dark are a statutory fitting, not an accessory. From half an hour after sunset the rider must show "a lamp emitting a white light visible from a distance of at least five hundred feet, and to the rear of said bicycle a lamp emitting a red light and a red reflector visible for not less than six hundred feet" (ch. 85, § 11B, cl. (8)).
• Two abreast is the group limit, one lane the rule. "Bicyclists riding together shall not ride more than 2 abreast but, on a roadway with more than 1 lane in the direction of travel, bicyclists shall ride within a single lane" (ch. 85, § 11B, cl. (1)).

The statewide voucher is closed, and Boston runs its own

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center states the position on its own e-bike page: "The 2025 Statewide E-Bike Voucher Program is now closed and not expected to re-open in 2026." MassCEC's account of the closed program is that it helped more than 3,000 low- and moderate-income residents buy qualifying bikes through participating retailers.

The live money is municipal. The City of Boston's e-bikes incentive program publishes vouchers of $800 for a standard e-bike or $1,200 for income-eligible applicants, $1,100 for a cargo bike or $1,500 income-eligible, and $2,000 to $5,000 for an adaptive bike, each with a $150 safety-equipment voucher. Eligibility runs to residents at or below 40% of area median income, adults aged 60 and over, and adults with disabilities.

Two conditions decide where a voucher holder shops, both published by the city: 45 days to redeem at a participating retailer with government-issued identification, and the money is good only for "Class 1 and Class 2" bikes on those shops' floors. Boston will not buy a rider a machine the General Laws decline to define, which is the plainest confirmation of the two-class frame outside the statute itself.

Every Massachusetts City — 50 Verified

No Massachusetts city has its own individually verified page yet, so every entry below is evidenced here, on this page, with the date and the source that proves it. The listings run by region and then by town, from the mapped candidate pool and from the two chain rosters read branch by branch. Forty towns and cities carry at least one storefront.

Greater Boston (33 listed across 23 cities)

Acton (1 verified)

• Pedal Power Bike & Ski: 176 Great Road, 01720 · +1 978-263-3197 · www.pedpow.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Arlington (1 verified)

• Quad Cycles: 1035;1043 Massachusetts Avenue, 02476 · quadcycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Ayer (1 verified)

• Fresh Ayer Sports: 3 Park Street · freshayersports.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Bedford (1 verified)

• The Bikeway Source: 111 South Road, 01730 · +1-781-275-7799 · www.bikewaysource.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Belmont (1 verified)

• Belmont Wheelworks: 480 Trapelo Road, 02478 · www.wheelworks.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Boston (3 verified)

• Bikes Not Bombs - Hub and Bike Shop: 284 Amory Street, 02130 · +1-617-522-0222 · bikesnotbombs.org · site checked 2026-08-29
• Landry's Bicycles: 890 Commonwealth Avenue, 02215 · +1-617-232-0446 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-boston · site checked 2026-08-29
• Urban Cycles: 109 Atlantic Avenue, 02110 · +1-617-670-0637 · urbancycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Braintree (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 44 Granite Street, 02184 · +1-781-519-6306 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-braintree · site checked 2026-08-29

Cambridge (4 verified)

• Cambridge Bicycle: 259 Massachusetts Avenue, 02139 · +1-617-876-6555 · cambridgebicycle.com · site checked 2026-08-29
• Cambridge Used Bicycles - Repair Service: 201 Monsignor O'Brien Highway, 02141 · www.cambridgeusedbicycles.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29
• Casa Bikes Amped!: 183 Morgan Avenue, 02141 · +1-617-249-4737 · casabikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29
• Trek: 176 Alewife Brook Parkway Path, 02138 · +1-617-221-8742 · www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/retail/cambridge · site checked 2026-08-29

Charlestown (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 100 Hood Park Drive, 02129 · +1-617-644-7400 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-charlestown · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Chelmsford (1 verified)

• The Bike Shop: 8 Alpine Lane · +19787291281 · www.shopthebike.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Foxboro (1 verified)

• Foxboro Bike: 211 North Street, 02035 · +1 508-698-2453 · www.foxborobike.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Hudson (1 verified)

• Assabet River Bicycles: 90 Cherry Street · www.assabetbicycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Lexington (3 verified)

• Battle Road Bikes: Lexington · battleroadbikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29
• Conte's Bike Shop: 1684 Massachusetts Avenue, 02420 · +1-339-970-0678 · www.contebikes.com/about/lexington-ma-pg502.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
• Cycle Loft: 675 Lowell Street, 02420 · +1 781-272-0870 · www.cycleloft.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Littleton (1 verified)

• CK Bikes: 320 Great Road, 01460 · +1 978-339-5260 · ckbikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Medford (1 verified)

• JRA Cycles: 229 Salem Street, 02155 · +1-781-391-3636 · www.jracycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Melrose (1 verified)

• The Ride Cafe: 368 Main Street, 02176 · +1-617-644-0212 · theridecafe.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Natick (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 790 Worcester Street, 01760 · +1-508-655-1990 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-natick · site checked 2026-08-29

Needham (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 100 Highland Avenue · +1-617-831-4351 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-needham · site checked 2026-08-29

Norwood (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 1583 Boston-Providence Turnpike · +1-781-440-0310 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-norwood · site checked 2026-08-29

Somerville (4 verified)

• Ace Wheelworks: 145 Elm Street, 02144 · +1-617-776-2100 · www.wheelworks.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29
• Bicycle Belle: 368 Beacon Street, 02143 · +1-617-661-0969 · bicyclebelleboston.com · site checked 2026-08-29
• Bike Boom: 389 Highland Avenue, 02144 · +1-617-627-9801 · bikeboom.net · site checked 2026-08-29
• Cambridge Used Bicycles: 382 Somerville Avenue, 02143 · +1-617-818-0920 · www.cambridgeusedbicycles.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Stoneham (1 verified)

• City Cycle: 286 Main Street, 02180 · +1 781 438 0358 · www.citycycleinc.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Watertown (1 verified)

• Farina's: 61 Galen Street, 02472 · +1 617 926 1717 · farinas.com · site checked 2026-08-29

West Roxbury (1 verified)

• Adis Bike World: 1754 Centre Street, 02132 · +1-617-325-2453 · www.adisbikeworld.net · site checked 2026-08-29

The North Shore and the Merrimack Valley (3 listed across 3 cities)

Haverhill (1 verified)

• Riverside Cycle: 1 James P Ginty Boulevard, 01830 · riversidecycle.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Lynn (1 verified)

• North Shore Cycle: 251 Western Avenue, 01904 · +1-781-581-2700 · www.nscycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Newburyport (1 verified)

• Riverside Cycle: 50 Water Street, 01922 · +1 978-465-5566 · riversidecycle.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29

The South Shore, Cape Cod and the Islands (3 listed across 3 cities)

Brockton (1 verified)

• Travis Cycle: 722 North Main Street · +1 508-586-6394 · www.traviscycle.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Falmouth (1 verified)

• Corner Cycle: 115 Palmer Avenue · www.cornercycle.com/about/falmouth-pg153.htm · site checked 2026-08-29

Wareham (1 verified)

• The Bike Den: 2569 Cranberry Highway · www.thebikeden.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Southeastern Massachusetts (2 listed across 2 cities)

North Attleborough (1 verified)

• Sirois Bicycle Shop: 893 Landry Avenue, 02760 · +1 508-695-6303 · www.siroisbicycle.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Taunton (1 verified)

• Travis Cycle: Taunton · +1 508-822-0396 · www.traviscycle.com · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Central Massachusetts (4 listed across 4 cities)

Fitchburg (1 verified)

• The Break Bike Shop: 872 Main Street, 01420 · +1-978-300-7909 · thebreakbikeshop.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Milford (1 verified)

• Milford Bicycle: 71 East Main Street, 01757 · +1 508-473-7955 · www.milfordbicycle.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Westborough (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 78 Turnpike Road, 01581 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-westboro · chain site checked 2026-08-29

Worcester (1 verified)

• Landry's Bicycles: 20 Jolma Road, 01604 · www.landrys.com/locations/landrys-worcester · chain site checked 2026-08-29

The Pioneer Valley and the Berkshires (5 listed across 5 cities)

Amherst (1 verified)

• Hampshire Bike Exchange: Amherst · www.hampshirebicycleexchange.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Florence (1 verified)

• Quadrini Electric Bicycles: 45 Main Street, 01062 · +1-800-618-1512 · www.quadrini-usa.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Hadley (1 verified)

• Valley Bike and Ski Werks: 178 Russell Street, 01035 · +14135820733 · www.valleybikeandskiwerks.com · site checked 2026-08-29

West Springfield (1 verified)

• Colorado Ski & Bike Shop: 1160 Westfield Street, 01089 · coloradoskishop.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Westfield (1 verified)

• New Horizons Bikes: 55 Franklin Street, 01085 · +1-413-562-5237 · www.newhorizonsbikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29

If your city has none: the nearest verified store

Sixteen of the 25 cities checked have no verified e-bike store inside their own limits. In most of Massachusetts that is a municipal-boundary fact rather than a retail one, and the distances say so. Below are the eight largest, measured straight-line from the city's coordinates to the store's own.

Read those distances the right way. Five of the eight sit within three miles of a floor, closer than plenty of residents live to their own downtown, so the empty cell is a city line rather than a desert.

The real gaps are on the south coast. The mapped coordinates put New Bedford 14 miles from its closest counter and Fall River 21, and the return trip for a warranty adjustment is the part that hurts.

A drive of that length changes what a local shop is actually buying you. The test ride and the first free tune-up are worth crossing a town for; they are worth less when the shop is 40 miles round trip and the bike goes back twice in the first season.

Buying online vs buying in a Massachusetts shop

A local shop earns its margin on three things: a test ride, an assembly done properly, and a person to hand the bike back to when something fails. If any of those matters, the drive is worth making, and the listings above will save the wasted trips.

Where online wins is selection and terms. A Massachusetts floor stocks to the 20 mph line because that is what the statute recognizes and what Boston's voucher will pay for, which makes commuters, cargo bikes and comfort hybrids easy to find here and almost anything else a special order. Riders shopping the common price points get the deepest choice in the country; a rider who wanted something the statute declines to define gets a special order or nothing.

The rest of what online wins is paperwork. Warranty length, return window and who pays the freight vary far more between brands than the sticker prices do. Redtail's folding e-bikes and cargo e-bikes are the two ranges Massachusetts buyers most often find missing from a showroom, and the terms are published rather than negotiated at the counter.

One caveat is specific to this state: a Boston voucher cannot be spent online. A rider holding one should treat the city's participating-shop list as the shortlist, not this page.

Whichever way the decision goes, work it through the electric bike buying guide first, so the class, the motor and the range are settled before anyone starts selling.

Frequently Asked Questions — Massachusetts eBike Shops

How many e-bike shops are there in Massachusetts?

Fifty as of September 4, 2026, counted across all 25 Massachusetts cities above 50,000 residents plus the smaller towns that carry one. Seventeen sit inside those city lines and 33 in towns below the threshold. The number is a floor rather than a census: the candidate pool was 119 named bicycle shops, and a shop that could not be evidenced is left out.

Does Massachusetts allow Class 3 e-bikes?

Not as electric bicycles. Ch. 90, § 1 defines an electric bicycle only as a machine meeting the class 1 or class 2 requirements, and the phrase "class 3" appears nowhere in that section. A 28 mph pedal-assist bike falls outside the definition, and outside the proviso that keeps electric bicycles clear of the motorized-bicycle rules.

Are e-bikes legal in Massachusetts?

Yes, when they meet the definition: fully operable pedals, a motor of 750 watts or less, and assistance that ceases at 20 mph, whether by pedal assist or throttle (ch. 90, § 1). The same section's "motorized bicycle" definition, the moped-era category, expressly excludes an electric bicycle, which is what keeps a compliant bike out of that regime.

Do children need a helmet on an e-bike in Massachusetts?

Yes. Any person 16 years of age or younger operating a bicycle or riding as a passenger on a public way, bicycle path or other public right-of-way must wear a helmet meeting United States Consumer Product Safety Commission standards, secured by the straps (ch. 85, § 11B, cl. (2)(iii)). Put the helmet on the child whatever else is unsettled.

Is there a Massachusetts e-bike rebate right now?

Not from the state. MassCEC publishes that "the 2025 Statewide E-Bike Voucher Program is now closed and not expected to re-open in 2026." The City of Boston runs a separate municipal incentive with its own eligibility rules and its own list of participating shops, so a Boston resident should start there.

Which Massachusetts city has the most e-bike shops?

Cambridge and Somerville, with four verified storefronts each, ahead of Boston and Lexington at three. The more useful answer is that no city dominates: 33 of the 50 counters are in towns below the 50,000-resident line this page checks against, spread through the ring around Boston and out to the Connecticut River, which is why this page lists by region rather than by city.

Where do I buy if my city has no e-bike shop?

Check the nearest-store table first. For five of the eight largest cities without a floor, the closest verified counter is within three miles. New Bedford and Fall River are the two genuine exceptions at 14 and 21 miles by the mapped coordinates, and those are the two places where ordering online with published terms competes squarely with the drive.

The Bottom Line

Massachusetts has a dense, old, small-town bike-shop network and a coverage map that looks empty until the town lines come off. Nine of its 25 largest cities hold a verified store, sixteen do not, and 33 more storefronts sit in towns too small for the table.

Go local if a test ride, a proper assembly and a person to hand the bike back to are worth a short drive. In most of eastern Massachusetts that drive is under five miles, and the listings above give the address, the phone number and the date of the check.

Buy online if the nearest counter is a south-coast drive, or if the warranty and return terms matter more than a showroom. Those terms vary far more between brands than the prices do.

Either way, get the class in writing, ask what the bike stops in when it is loaded, and put a CPSC helmet on any rider aged 16 or younger before the first trip out.

Run a shop that belongs here, or spotted an error? Email sales@redtailebikes.com. Verified corrections are published and additions are welcome. Last verified September 4, 2026.

More from the U.S. eBike Directory

Sources, limitations and how this page was verified

How the count was reached

One method produces one number. For every city the count comes from that city's own live directory page where one exists, and otherwise from the distinct storefronts listed here, deduplicated on shop name within a town because the map records one business as several objects. Towns below the 50,000 threshold keep their listings and are counted separately, because a table of cities can never show them.

Massachusetts has no city directory page of its own yet, so the whole total is the second route: 50 storefronts, 17 of them inside the 25 cities above 50,000 residents and 33 in smaller towns, across 40 distinct municipalities. The per-city working is in research/shop-directory/massachusetts/hub_count_reconciled_20260904.csv and the regional split in region_tally_20260904.csv beside it.

How to read the listings

Every store above carries one of two evidence grades, and they are not equivalent.

Site checked covers 39 of the 50: the shop's own website was loaded on August 29, 2026 and it names e-bikes in its own words.

Chain site checked covers 11: a multi-location retailer where the readable page belongs to the chain rather than the branch. That proves the chain sells e-bikes; it does not prove what that branch had on the floor today. Most of these are Landry's and Travis Cycle branches whose individual store pages load their addresses through a script.

Call before a long drive whatever the grade says. Shops move, and an address accurate in August will not stay accurate forever.

Why the map is thin where it is thin

Search for e-bike shops in Massachusetts and the results cluster hard around Boston. Part of that is real and part of it is the underlying data. OpenStreetMap's Overpass API returned 121 objects tagged as bicycle shops for the whole state, resolving to 119 named businesses across 53 cities, and only 72 of them publish a website at all.

Two of the state's better-known retailers show the gap directly. Landry's has traded since 1922 and its eight branches are recorded unevenly in the map data; Travis Cycle covers Brockton and Taunton, two cities the mapped pool left at zero.

Both were reached by resolving the business name and then reading the company's own pages. That is why the total here is higher than a map-only sweep would produce, and still lower than the real number of shops trading in the Commonwealth.

The south coast is the one place where thin data and thin retail agree. New Bedford and Fall River returned nothing in the mapped pool and nothing in the roster work either, and the nearest verified counters are 14 and 21 miles away.

Limitations

1. Every count on this page was re-derived on September 4, 2026, and the earlier figure of 58 in the title is superseded by 50. The reconciliation is in research/shop-directory/massachusetts/hub_count_reconciled_20260904.csv. Eight of the previous 58 entries were the same branch listed twice, once with its street address under the chain name and once again under a branch name that repeated the town, so Landry's Boston, Charlestown, Braintree, Natick, Needham, Norwood, Westborough and Worcester each counted for two. Each branch now appears once, on the line that carries its address, linking to the branch page that was read. The regional headings, the coverage table, the stat block and the FAQ are all cut from the same 50.
2. Three verified storefronts are placed by town rather than by street. Battle Road Bikes in Lexington, Hampshire Bike Exchange in Amherst and Travis Cycle in Taunton publish no street address in any source held for this page, so the listing gives the town, the telephone number where one exists and the website that evidences the shop.
3. Sixteen zeros are checked zeros on one day, and the nearest-store table names how far the nearest verified floor sits for the eight largest of them. Thin coverage inside a city line, not absence.
4. Two Pedego roster entries were excluded, because the brand's own Massachusetts pages label the Yarmouth location "Temporarily Closed" and the Oak Bluffs location "Coming Soon." A roster entry is not an open storefront. Both are named here rather than dropped in silence.
5. Six candidates could not be read at all — three returned a client-rendered shell containing none of the words searched for, two returned HTTP errors and one domain was unreachable. None of that is evidence a shop has closed, and none of them appears as an absence in any city count.
6. Eighteen shops load and never mention e-bikes on their own pages. They are leads for a telephone call rather than negatives.
7. The statute sections read for this page are ch. 90, § 1 and ch. 85, § 11B, retrieved from malegislature.gov on September 4, 2026 and deposited under research/citations/ebike-shops-massachusetts/raw/. Ch. 85, § 11B1/2 was also read and is not cited as an e-bike rule: it governs helmets on "in line skates, a skate board, a scooter or other manually-propelled wheeled vehicle" and does not reach bicycles. The bicycle helmet rule is in § 11B itself, at clause (2)(iii).
8. The class question is stated from the definitions section, not from a court. Ch. 90, § 1 recognizes two classes; what a 28 mph pedal-assist machine is in Massachusetts is a question those definitions leave open, and this page publishes the gap rather than filling it.
9. No path, park or trail rule appears here. Massachusetts municipalities and agencies set those locally, and a specific path's rule is a question for the authority that runs it.
10. No search-volume figure appears on this page. Keyword pricing for Massachusetts has not been run, so no term on it carries a measured volume.
11. The publisher sells electric bikes. Redtail is an online retailer shipping nationwide, and this page recommends shops it has no relationship with, in towns where the alternative would be buying from Redtail. The listings carry no ranking, no sponsored placement and no preference for the brands Redtail stocks.

This page expires when any of these change: a listed shop closes, moves or stops selling e-bikes; the legislature amends the definitions in ch. 90, § 1 or the bicycle rules in ch. 85, § 11B; MassCEC reopens a voucher round or Boston changes its program; the Census publishes a new vintage of city estimates; or OpenStreetMap's coverage of central and western Massachusetts improves enough to change the candidate pool.

Source register

No T4 source is relied on for any statement of rule, and no T5 source appears anywhere on this page. Redtail sells e-bikes online and has no commercial relationship with any shop listed.

Primary sources

1. Massachusetts General Court, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, § 1, Definitions — malegislature.gov. Retrieved September 4, 2026; archived copy.
2. Massachusetts General Court, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 85, § 11B, Bicycles; operation and equipment — malegislature.gov. Retrieved September 4, 2026; archived copy.
3. Massachusetts General Court, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 85, § 11B1/2, Mandatory helmet use for persons 16 years of age or younger — malegislature.gov. Retrieved September 4, 2026; archived copy.
4. Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Electric Bicycles — goclean.masscec.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
5. City of Boston, Boston e-bikes incentive program — boston.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
6. U.S. Census Bureau, City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2024 (SUB-EST2024) — census.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
7. OpenStreetMap contributors, shop=bicycle objects within Massachusetts, via the Overpass API. Retrieved August 29, 2026; 121 objects. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
8. Landry's Bicycles — landrys.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
9. Travis Cycle, Brockton and Taunton — traviscycle.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
10. Individual shop websites, one per site-checked entry — each URL, retrieval date and the sentence that evidences it are recorded in content/articles/ebike-shops-massachusetts/citations.csv.
11. Working datasets: research/shop-directory/massachusetts/osm_leads_20260829_citypatched.csv, verified_20260829.csv, coverage_50000.csv, hub_count_reconciled_20260904.csv and OPEN-GAPS.md.